Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-11-26

oiul.o on lLS alnI1ie StorcS or EArhrTcQ ITultt
As full OF sunshli.o to our aged eyes
As when itnursed the blo ssoms of our spring.
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1t is Worry, Not Work, That Kills.
Do You believe that's Work new
er killed anybody yet. Bnr You
and ! meet men and women every
day who are dying ny inches with
worry. There goes n man now
worries if his business is not gong
righ', and when it does go right
he worries for fear it will go wrong.
The lines of discomfort are on eve
~ feature of his face. He has
fiNel deeply IN his character the
habit of fletting, and life is bur
den 70 HIM. The man does not
seem to realize it. hut he is slowly
and surely committing suicide. Up
yonder at the Judgment seat of
ChriSta great many revelations
are going to he made. We-will see
there what we do not seem to see
here-tlat death results often, NOT
from heart disease, nor lung dis
ease, nor blood disease, as the doc
tors saw here. Things will lie called
by their right names there. Self
murder will be the verdict there
fer very many cases over which no
coroner empanelled Il jury.
Alter leaving school | went to
Study for awhile with DR.. Milburn.
the blind man eloquent" He i'm.
pressed on my young life then a
,;ea many lessons. Among 9th
ers this: "My boy, the majority
Of men die of worry. The best
work OF !. mans life ought to be
done between the ages of fifty and
seventy. And Yet most men are
dead at fifty. Avoid fretting ii
you Wonld live long and reap the
best fruit of life" From that time
till now / have been a close student
Of men. Dying too early is the
common fact Of life. Men are grey
headed at forty, and shelved or
dead at fifty, that onght to have
done the "best work of life he
tween fifty and seventy"
often think Of poor Byron, who
fielted life threadbare at thirty
six. dying at that age with this
song on his lips:
NJ, days arein the yellow leaf,
The flowerSvnd fruits of life are gone,
The " I'M. the calker and the grief
Are mine alone.
"Norrying over his business
brought on paralysis" the doctor
said of a friend who died recently
in ne ohboring city. 1t will kill
every time. lfyou have no organ
ic disease, it will bring organic dis.
ease. Just begin to worry, and in
head, or heart, or lung, or liver, or
bloo,l, somewhere disease will set
in that will wear the soul aud waste
the body.
Bishop Marvir's life is admira-
bic in a great many respects. No
man can study his character with
out coveting earnestly q good many
of his gifts. IN reviewing his ca
reer recently, this fact struck me
as never before-there was no fret
ting in his life. When those four
old preachers overlook him return
ing from that first Conference. and
advised him to go home and not
try 10 preach any more. an ordi
nary man would have broken down
aud quit. But lie did not start ou1
to peach to please men. After
listening to the ''goodly judgment"
of these old brethren, he went to
the .ecret place of power,the place
he received his commission to
preach, ard the voice said again,
Geo preach my gospel" And he
went. If he was awkward and
unganIy at first, he did not fret
about it; he worked on till every
movement of his body was grace.
If his voice was harsh and high.
there WIS no worrying over that;
he worked on till men said his was
the most eloquent of tongues. His
otncatlon was limited; he was I'M
lcttered and unlearned; but there
was no chatinG over this. He
worked on till the ripeSt scholars
Of the age were honored by his
coupanioushlp. He started life
with the germs of deadly disease
IN his lody; but there was no re-
pinng over that. He worked on,
making as brave fight as man
ever made. So that when dead,
the post mortem revelation made
the physicians marvel that he had
lived so long.
Now, brother. neither you are a
laylnan or preacher, quit worrying.
Work more and worry less. If you
have a good, strong, healthy body
don't waste it away by iretting;
keep it strong and vigorous by
Neutrality-suspicious. Christian AID
vocate.
Negro Fiddler Of Kentucky.
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